Objective:

The adverse outcomes associated with ADHD are well known, but less is known about the minority of children with ADHD who may be flourishing despite this neurodevelopmental risk. The present multi-informant study is an initial step in this direction with the basic but unanswered question: Are there resilient children with ADHD?

Method:

Reliable change analysis of the BASC-3 Resiliency subscale for a clinically evaluated sample of 206 children with and without ADHD (ages 8–13; 81 girls; 66.5% White/Non-Hispanic).

Results

Most children with ADHD are perceived by their parents and teachers as resilient (52.8%–59.2%), with rates that did not differ from the comorbidity-matched Non-ADHD sample.

Conclusion

Exploratory analyses highlighted the importance of identifying factors that promote resilience for children with ADHD specifically, such that some child characteristics were promotive (associated with resilience for both groups), some were protective (associated with resilience only for children with ADHD), and some were beneficial only for children without ADHD.

中文翻译：

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是否有适应力强的多动症儿童？

客观的：

与多动症相关的不良后果是众所周知的，但对于少数患有多动症的儿童，尽管存在这种神经发育风险，但他们可能正在蓬勃发展，对此知之甚少。目前的多信息研究是朝着这个方向迈出的第一步，有一个基本但未回答的问题：是否有患有多动症的有复原力的儿童？

方法：

对 206 名患有和不患有 ADHD 的儿童（8-13 岁；81 名女孩；66.5% 白人/非西班牙裔）的临床评估样本进行 BASC-3 弹性分量表的可靠变化分析。

结果

大多数患有 ADHD 的儿童被他们的父母和老师认为是有复原力的 (52.8%–59.2%)，其比率与合并症匹配的非 ADHD 样本没有差异。

结论

探索性分析强调了确定促进多动症儿童复原力的因素的重要性，例如一些儿童特征是促进性的（与两组的复原力相关），一些是保护性的（仅与多动症儿童的复原力相关），还有一些是仅对没有多动症的儿童有益。